Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

——with the outcome from the Minister, Deputy Harney. Today, 500 pharmacists will gather for an unprecedented meeting. They have been largely a peaceable people and they have put in place measures to ensure no patient is hurt today, unlike what was said in the House last night.

I support Senator O'Toole's call for the full and immediate implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act. That will ensure there is an appeals process in place for parents of children with special educational needs and go towards helping them achieve their appropriate entitlement under our Constitution.

I ask the Leader to intervene with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on a special case with which the adoption board must engage immediately. A young Galway couple from Connemara have adopted a baby in the United States. They are living there currently but want to repatriate here and gain full citizenship rights for their adopted child, which is the right of any adopted child. I ask the Leader to ask the Minister to reassure the couple that the Adoption Board will work to ensure the legal issues will be addressed and that it will be flexible in meeting that.